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Roxy Jacenko talks child privacy with The Project

Responding after images of her young daughter were offensively doctored and circulated, the PR consultant defends her right to put her child in the public eye. Vision: The Project, 6.30pm weekdays on Ten.

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Roxy Jacenko talks child privacy with The Project

Responding after images of her young daughter were offensively doctored and circulated, the PR consultant defends her right to put her child in the public eye. Vision: The Project, 6.30pm weekdays on Ten.

During an interview on The Project, Aly and co-hosts Mia Freedman and Carrie Bickmore probed Jacenko on her decision to create an Instagram account for Pixie Curtis, which has more than 100,000 followers.

The author and former Celebrity Apprentice star notified police after an a unnamed fashion designer circulated photoshopped images which showed the child in sexually explicit situations.

"I think the reality is everyone's going to have an opinion on how you parent and what you do do and what you don't do. For me, I am very very confident in the way she is on social media in the sense of I don't put pictures of her in the bath with no clothes on."

"Every picture that she has on her Instagram is doing childlike things: at the park, baking a cake with her brother," the 35-year-old continued, calling the digitally altered photos paedophilia.

Mia Freedman, right, praised Deborah Thomas for being a mentor for women in the magazine industry. Photo: Ten Network

Jacenko said she didn't understand what motivated the "vendetta", but maintained it shouldn't involve her daughter and that she would not live as a recluse online.

"I am sorry to see her in this situation. But let me tell you, one of the two photos that was used was from my personal Instagram. So the question is, am I to live my life as recluse and not share pictures of my child?"

Jacenko has made the account private and said she would monitor who followed her daughter online, but Mia Freedman said parents had little control.

"The fact of the matter is, when you post photos of your kids online - as we have all had to make those decisions whether we do or not - you lose control of what happens to those photos," Freedman said.

Added Aly: "We have battled with that exactly. We made the decision never to do it for those sort of reasons."